• Djeece@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I mean, when you consider the US government spends more (almost twice as much) on healthcare per capita than most countries with free healthcare, you’re literally paying more taxes for it AND you have to shell out 50k$ when something bad happens.

      Your only argument is “Taxes bad” even when we’re talking about a system that would actually cost less taxes, just because it has a side effect of also helping less fortunate people.

      How much more egocentric can you get lmao

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          1 year ago

          Not unless you’re in like Arizona or Florida or other shit low-taxes states full of freedumb.

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              1 year ago

              Nah what I’m saying is that most states’ taxation rates are pretty close to what you’d get in other developed countries.

              Except pretty much every other developed country has cheap healthcare and education. The US is truly alone in this, and it shows, because the US also has some of the worst inequalities of the modern world.

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      1 year ago

      My man here has decided community services like The Fire Department and infrastructure like The Roads are not important to him.